Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 13:50:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ICMP redirect Message-ID: <20030709185028.GK39506@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030709184027.GD90359@kongemord.krig.net> References: <20030709184027.GD90359@kongemord.krig.net>
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In the last episode (Jul 09), Bob Hall said: > This isn't critical, but I'm wondering if someone can tell me what is > going on here. > > I did > traceroute 217.20.241.75 > and got several of the following on ttyv0, which displays kernel and > other messages: > icmp redirect from 213.232.120.198: 217.20.241.75 => 213.232.120.194 > > I'm guessing that the router at 213.232.120.198 is redirecting ICMP > packets, but why is this information showing up on the tty that > handles internal messages? You probably have the net.inet.icmp.log_redirect sysctl set to 1. It defaults to 0. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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